a language. He suggests that such continuity, especially in the age of rapid electronic communication, is fatuous. He accuses the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language in Madrid of colonialism of bias. He has studied the Iberian conquest of the Americas in the 16th century from a linguistic perspective. Stavans believes that translation represents cultural appropriation. He defines modernity as "a translated way of life". Conversations about Literature In 2005, in a series of interviews with Neal Sokol published as Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations, Stavans traces his beginnings, and calls Hispanic civilization to task for its reluctance to undertake constructive self-criticism. In addition, he discusses the work of numerous writers: Borges, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, Giannina Braschi, Sholem Aleichem, Gabriel García Márquez, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Octavio Paz, Samuel Johnson, Edward Said, Miguel de Cervantes, and others. He reflects on anti-Semitism and anti-Hispanic sentiment. In Love and Language (2007), Stavans and translator Verónica Albin discuss the way the word "love" has changed through the ages. In Knowledge and Censorship (2008), Stavans explains the "acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship." Mordecai Drache, who writes for Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, discusses with Stavans the Bible as a work of literature in With All Thine Heart (2010). Steven G. Kellman published The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (2019), the first book-length study of the author and his work (Latinx and Latin American Profiles, Pittsburgh). Books {{columns-list|colwidth=30em|* 2020 - "Popol Vuh: A Retelling" 2020 - Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi (with Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O'Dwyer) 2015 - Quixote: The Novel and the World 2014 - A Most Imprefect Union (with Lalo Alcarez) 2013 - Golemito' Juvenile fiction hardcover, illustrated by Teresa Villegas 2012 - El Iluminado (with Steve Sheinkin) 2012 - Return to Centro Historico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots. 2011 - José Vaconcelos: The Prophet of Race 2011 - What is la hispanidad?: A Conversation (with Iván Jaksic). 2010 - With All Thine Heart: Love and the Bible (with Mordecai Drache).' 2010 - Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years. 2009 - A Critic's Journey 2008 - Resurrecting Hebrew. 2008 - Mr. Spic Goes to Washington, illustrations by Roberto Weil. 2008 - Knowledge and Censorship (with Verónica Albin).